Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…

DIRECTION VII.

Another help against the Enmity of Death is the Crucifying of the flesh, with its affections and lusts; and the conquest of the world by the life of faith, and crucifying it by the Cross of Christ; and dying daily by the patient suffering of the Cross our selves. When we are loose from all things under the Sun, and there is nothing that entangleth our affections on earth, a great part of the difficulty is then removed. But Death will tear the heart that is glued to any thing in this world. Possess therefore as if you possessed not, and rejoice as if you rejoiced not, and use the world as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world doth pass away, 1 Cor. 7. 29, 30, 31. It is much for the sake of our flesh that must perish, that Death doth seem so bitter to us: If therefore we can throughly subdue the flesh, and live above its pleasure and desires, we shall the ⟨p. 86⟩more easily bear its dissolution. Shut up your senses then a little more, and let your hearts grow stranger to this world; and if you have known any persons, relations, accommodations after the flesh, from henceforth know them so no more. How terrible is Death to an earthly-minded man, that had neglected his soul for a treasure here, which must then be dissipated in a moment? How easy is Death to a heavenly mind, that is throughly weaned from this world, and taketh it but for his pilgrimage or passage unto life, and it hath made it the business of his days, to lay up for himself a treasure in Heaven: He that hath unfeignedly made Heaven his end in the course of his life, will most readily pass to it on the hardest terms: For every man is willing to attain his end.

ANother help against the Enmity of Death is the Crucifying of the flesh, with its affections and lusts; and the conquest of the world by the life of faith, and crucifying it by the Cross of Christ; and dying daily by the patient suffering of the Cross our selves. When we are loose from all things under the Sun, and there is nothing that entangleth our affections on earth, a great part of the difficulty is then removed. But Death will tear the heart that is glued to any thing in this world. Possess therefore as if you possessed not, and rejoyce as if you rejoyced not, and use the world as not abusingit: for the fashion of this world doth pass away,